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So I am out in the field moving metal. I'm usually very careful when picking stuff up because I know there's lots of snakes and spiders. Sure enough grabbed a barrel through it towards the truck, looked down and a copper head was coiled up and snapping towards my boot. Warming up gotta keep an eye out for that stuff.
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I read(or heard somewhere) the majority of snakebites are to the hand, while someone is reaching into some place they can't see in to. Something to think about ; )
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Yeah I don't generally reach inside of stuff. And I flip things flat on the ground. Not just snakes but in ground bees nest. Do the folks on here that buy cars run across those nice surprises?
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No snakes to speak of but I learned an important lesson about spiders last year. Be careful what you stick your hand in.
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It's the beginning of wasp sting season again, not got stung yet but I'm sure it's coming. I find lots of critters digging thru scrap heap and in cars, but mainly hornets and wasps. God I hate getting stung but no pain, no gain !
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the very first car we got had a opossum under the hood, scared the crap outa me, I have had one green snake in a door panel and every now and then wasp and a few mice.Originally Posted by Trot
expect the worst and hope for the best
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Rats! I hate rats!
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Oh yeah, forgot bout that. Find lots of pack rats!
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thanks for the reminder!
was told that God had too many eyes and legs left over and just said, "whatever"
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A .357 on the side of my belt would give me some relief, I'm glad I don't see any poisonous snakes where I live, the only ones I see, are garter snakes, and that's about it.
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I keep a 22 loaded with varmint shot for just such occasions. I find raccoon nest often. I pepper them and they vacate there nest.
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I prefer a 12 gauge but a 22 is a lOt more portable
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...gets popcorn and pulls up a chair to watch Trot and Taterjuice play with snakes and guns...
~You have to start somewhere to get anywhere~
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Check your deoderant, if its got a Eugenol or Clove oil sort of substance in it, it may be that its your deoderant that causing the problem....
Clove oil & cinnamon oil have eugenol in it, Eugenol is a wasp & bee attractant.
It took me a decade of being the only one to get stung in a group of people for me to find that out..........
Also, it covers up the male tetesterone smell which may account for something else....
Benzaldehyde, Almond oil maybe/is a bee repellant
Last edited by eesakiwi; 05-15-2013 at 01:23 AM.
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I herd once that possom pee can kill a dog??
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fireman's brush boots are supposed to be snake proof
Rural scrapper
Oh my ! Hope that bee attracting stuff ain't in old spice ! But seriously wasps and hornets love to build nests exactly where I will find them. In cars they love to build in any space around doors, hood, or trunk or basically every place I'm gona be looking in. In scrap plies , count on finding them anywhere and everywhere
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Might be worth carrying a can of wasp/bug spray with you and give it a quick shot before you open it.
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What about bumblebees. I swear they lick the spray off and beg for more. They are the worst next to hornets for ground nest. * not a scientific fact
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